FNS Documents & Resources

This video is intended to provide food safety best practices for keeping food cold for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.

This video is intended to provide food safety best practices for cleaning and sanitizing food contact surfaces for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.

This video is intended to provide alternative meal service and distribution food safety best practices for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.

This is the third video in a series of videos that provides health and hygiene food safety best practices for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.

This video is the second in a series that provides information about navigating food safety regulations for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.

This video is the first in a series that provide food safety best practices for summer meals served by community operations, including in non-congregate settings.

The purpose of this memorandum is to provide guidance to state agencies and school food authorities on the paid lunch equity requirements for SY 2024-25. This memorandum explains the PLE exemption provided in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024. This memorandum also provides guidance for SFAs that do not qualify for the exemption.

Little is known about the food safety risks associated with the various production methods by which schools prepare and serve food to students. Given this, the Center for Food Safety in Child Nutrition Programs at Kansas State University conducted a study.

A webinar for state agency and school food authority staff focused on the community eligibility provision. 

The Community Eligibility Provision is a National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program meal service option that allows schools and school districts located in high poverty areas to offer breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students.